noun
definition
That which annoys.
definition
An act or instance of annoying.
definition
The psychological state of being annoyed or irritated.
Examples of annoyances in a Sentence
Some fielding control issues and base running annoyances plague the game, but a healthy offering of mini-games keeps you occupied so you won't get board of the regular baseball modes.
Birth control patch side effects range from common, minor annoyances to rare but serious problems.
With frequent urination topping the list of pregnancy annoyances, struggling with a zipper and buttons or yanking down tight pants just adds to the frustration.
Be sure to read all the information about any download to be certain you don't end up with unwanted advertisements or other annoyances.
How many of these risks are serious, and how many are mere annoyances?
I'm always keen to hear from people about their common annoyances that they would like a solution for and then I'll try to invent something to fix it.
Users who turned to Facebook to escape the random "Friends Requests" and other potential annoyances of MySpace began to experience the same things with Facebook.
But other annoyances were not wanting from unfaithful disciples and unsympathetic critics.
Especially complicated was the ancient Babylonian demonology; all the petty annoyances of life - a sudden fall, a headache, a quarrel - were set down to the agency of fiends; all the stronger emotions - love, hate, jealousy and so on - were regarded as the work of demons; in fact so numerous were they, that there were special fiends for various parts of the human body - one for the head, another for the neck, and so on.
When his purpose became known to the Masons, Morgan was subjected to frequent annoyances, and finally in September 1826 he was seized and surreptitiously conveyed to Fort Niagara, whence he disappeared.
Carlyle's constitutional irritability made him intensely sensitive to petty annoyances.
Mrs Carlyle had to pass many hours alone, and the management of the household and of devices intended to shield him from annoyances was left entirely to her.
It is not easy to see how Washington survived the year 1775; the colonial poverty, the exasperating annoyances, the outspoken criticism of those who demanded active operations, the personal and party dissensions in Congress, the selfishness or stupidity which cropped out again and again among some of the most patriotic of his coadjutors were enough to have broken down most men.
This peculiarity of jute, coupled also with the fact that the machinery on which it was first spun, although quite suitable for the stronger and more elastic fibres for which it was designed, required certain modifications to suit it to the weaker jute, was the cause of many annoyances and failures in the early days of the trade.
The dominating ambition of his life was to achieve fame, but though that sometimes betrayed him into petty jealousy, it did not leave him insensible to the claims on his knowledge of the "cause of humanity," to use a phrase often employed by him in connexion with his invention of the miners' lamp. Of the smaller observances of etiquette he was careless, and his frankness of disposition sometimes exposed him to annoyances which he might have avoided by the exercise of ordinary tact.
Among his letters are one to Jerome and another to John, bishop of Jerusalem, regarding annoyances to which the first named had been subjected by the Pelagians at Bethlehem.
Annoyances There are only a few things that I really dislike, and some of them are rather petty.
Where bullies were named, these were both boys and girls, although boys were blamed for most of the petty annoyances.